Photo of the day

You wouldn’t hardly know it was winter this weekend – highs in the 60’s, warm breezes.  I decided to take short hike on the back side of the mountain, looking of all things, for a single tree in the middle of the forest. We didn’t find the tree but on the way back into town […]

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Busted up to the top of the mountain in my best time yet – 3.5 hours for 7 miles and 4,000 feet.   Sunday saw another 8 miles but that day was an up-and-downer – just kills my knees.  But on that trip I looked for hidden treasure, so to speak, and was partially successful. […]

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No fireworks tonight, at least not at the local country club. It was great however, to be up on the roof and watching the horizon explode in every quadrant with flashes and booms and all the noise that is the celebration of the 4th. We, my hiking friend from Michigan and I, are very tired. […]

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I was hoping that you could fake out a blog, but it seems that is not possible, unless I’m just missing something. I wanted to go back in time and create some entries, but this thing seems too smart to let me insert posts for back in February. I suppose what I can do is […]

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I skipped it last year – but this year with company in the house.. it was time to trek off to the early morning events on Saturday. The morning was not really sunny, but occasionally a shot of light would light the balloons against the darker sky. We were late getting out of the house but at […]

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